JOB 41:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Will it make an agreement with you?
 ⇔ ≈Might you take it as a slave for the rest of its life?

41:4 Note: KJB: ʼIyyōⱱ.41.12

41:4 Variant note: לא: (x-qere) ’לֽ/וֹ’: lemma_l morph_HR/Sp3ms id_18m8G לֽ/וֹ

UHB 28 הֲ⁠יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑⁠ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗⁠נּוּ לְ⁠עֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָֽם׃ ‡
(28 hₐ⁠yikrot bəriyt ˊimmā⁠k tiqqāḩe⁠nnū lə⁠ˊeⱱed ˊōlām.)

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Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Will it cut a covenant with you?
⇔ Will you take it for a servant forever?

UST Crocodiles would certainly not make an agreement to work for you
⇔ as your slaves for as long as they lived!

BSB Will he make a covenant with you
⇔ to take him as a slave for life?

OEB Will he make any tryst with thee,
⇔ To be kept as thy servant for ever?

WEB Will he make a covenant with you,
⇔ that you should take him for a servant forever?

MSG ^(1-11)“Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod
  and stuff him in your creel?
Can you lasso him with a rope,
  or snag him with an anchor?
Will he beg you over and over for mercy,
  or flatter you with flowery speech?
Will he apply for a job with you
  to run errands and serve you the rest of your life?
Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish?
  Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?
Will you put him on display in the market
  and have shoppers haggle over the price?
Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion,
  or drive harpoons into his huge head?
If you so much as lay a hand on him,
  you won’t live to tell the story.
What hope would you have with such a creature?
  Why, one look at him would do you in!
If you can’t hold your own against his glowering visage,
  how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?
Who could confront me and get by with it?
  I’m in charge of all this—I run this universe!

NET Will it make a pact with you,
 ⇔ so you could take it as your slave for life?

LSV Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant?

FBV Will it make a contract with you? Will it agree to be your slave forever?

T4T Will they make an agreement with you to work for you,
⇔ to be your slaves as long as they live?

LEB • Will you take it as a slave forever?

BBE Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS (40-28) Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

ASV Will he make a covenant with thee,
 ⇔ That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

DRA Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?

YLT Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

DBY Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?

RV Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

WBS Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

KJB Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
(Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt/will thou/you take him for a servant for ever? )

BB Wyll he make a couenaunt with thee? or wilt thou take him for a seruaunt for euer?
(Wyll he make a covenant with thee? or wilt/will thou/you take him for a servant forever?)

GNV Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?

CB Wyll he make a couenaunt with the? Or, art thou able for to compell him to do the contynuall seruyce?
(Wyll he make a covenant with the? Or, art thou/you able for to compell him to do the contynuall seruyce?)

WYC Who schal schewe the face of his clothing, and who schal entre in to the myddis of his mouth?
(Who shall show the face of his clothing, and who shall enter in to the myddis of his mouth?)

LUT Dazu muß ich nun sagen, wie groß, wie mächtig und wohl geschaffen er ist.
(Dazu must I now say, like groß, like mächtig and wohl geschaffen he is.)

CLV Quis revelabit faciem indumenti ejus? et in medium oris ejus quis intrabit?
(Who revelabit face indumenti his? and in medium oris his who/any intrabit? )

BRN I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.

BrLXX Οὐ σιωπήσομαι διʼ αὐτόν· καὶ λόγον δυνάμεως ἐλεήσει τὸν ἶσον αὐτῷ.
(Ou siōpaʸsomai diʼ auton; kai logon dunameōs eleaʸsei ton ison autōi. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הֲ⁠יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑⁠ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗⁠נּוּ לְ⁠עֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָֽם

(Some words not found in UHB: לא keep_silence limbs,his and,concerning mighty_strength and,graceful frame,his )

Yahweh is using the question form for emphasis. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate these questions as statements or as exclamations. Alternate translation: “It would not cut a covenant with you! You could not take it for a servant forever!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

הֲ⁠יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑⁠ךְ

(Some words not found in UHB: לא keep_silence limbs,his and,concerning mighty_strength and,graceful frame,his )

Yahweh is speaking as if Leviathan could intelligently make legal arrangements. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “If it could cut covenants, it would not cut one with you!”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

הֲ⁠יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית

(Some words not found in UHB: לא keep_silence limbs,his and,concerning mighty_strength and,graceful frame,his )

See how you translated the expression “cut a covenant” in 31:1. Alternate translation: “Will it make a covenant”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

עוֹלָֽם

(Some words not found in UHB: לא keep_silence limbs,his and,concerning mighty_strength and,graceful frame,his )

The word translated forever does not mean for eternity. It describes an indefinite future period. In this context, it describes becoming a servant without any specified term of service, that is, for life. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “for the rest of its life”

Parallel JOB 41:4